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CNN  —  The first piece of modern federal legislation to address the infrastructure of voting systems across the country, known as Help America Vote Act, celebrates its 20th anniversary on Saturday. HAVA was created on a bipartisan basis after the 2000 presidential election, which was decided by the Supreme Court after razor thin margins revealed the need to address antiquated voting systems. As Congress has become more partisan, funding for HAVA has significantly decreased. Less than two weeks before the country faces its first midterm election since the 2020 presidential race, where former President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede and…

BT networking division Openreach is looking to reduce its broadband prices to attract new customers and lock in big wholesale clients like Vodafone, TalkTalk, and Sky as rivals lay full-fibre cables across the UK.The incumbent network operator, part of BT Group, has met some of its biggest corporate customers to suggest a number of changes to its pricing structure that would make its offer more attractive and help them move customers from copper to full fibre, according to two people who attended the meetings. Openreach makes money by wholesaling its broadband to internet service providers, including its parent group BT.For many…

With eight weeks of the college football season in the books, Week 9 presents the last opportunity for teams to prove they belong in the College Football Playoff picture. On Tuesday, the CFP committee will release its first playoffs rankings of the season that will no doubt set off arguments around the country.  Inevitably, there will be shouts of an SEC bias, and at least one school will feel slighted by where it lands.ALABAMA’S JERMAINE BURTON BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS NEW VIDEO OF TENNESSEE INCIDENT SURFACESBut that’s not for another few days. For now, we have three top-25 games on the…

There’s something about the human condition that often leads us to compare something we’ve just experienced to what’s familiar from our past. Whether we’re discovering a new food (“This tastes just like chicken.”), a new location (“This reminds me of home.”) or meeting someone new (“A lot nicer than my ex.”).The desire to find comparisons that help us better understand the present is strong.  For next weekend’s Breeders’ Cup in Lexington, Kentucky, an imposing 4-year-old named Flightline is the one horse fans have seen too little of but want to experience with the belief he’ll deliver another amazing performance worthy of…

Jake Paul and Anderson Silva will be the main event in a catchweight boxing match Saturday night at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona.The YouTube superstar, who is undefeated in the ring since he decided to get into the sport, will go toe-to-toe against one of the top mixed martial arts stars in the world. It’s a matchup months in the making as Paul was set to fight Tommy Fury before a visa issue prompted the British boxer to back out.Unlike the previous fights Paul has been involved in, most of the trash talk has been toned down in…

Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, along with the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) and Terra founding member Nicholas Platias, are facing a fresh $57 million class action suit from aggrieved investors in Singapore. The lawsuit is filed by 359 Terra investors in Singapore’s high court on September 23 and claims that Kwon, Platias, and the LFG made fraudulent claims regarding the ecosystem’s so-called algorithmic stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST), which was not “stable by design” and unable to maintain its U.S. dollar peg.Investors “believed that [TerraUSD] would be a token that was stable by design [and] whose price would always be pegged to the…

NEW DELHI: India has extended curbs on sugar exports by one year until October 2023, the government said, but the world’s biggest producer of the sweetener is still expected to fix a quota for this year’s overseas sales. India, also the world’s biggest sugar consumer, this year restricted exports through to the end of this month to contain a rise in domestic prices following record exports. “The notification merely extends the government’s policy of keeping sugar exports in the restricted category, but this decision does not mean that the government will not allow sugar exports in 2022/23,” Prakash Naiknavare, managing…

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Jalen Brunson accepted blame after his worst performance as a Knick. The new point guard, who had performed so well over his first four games, was held to 13 points and two assists in the Knicks’ 119-108 loss to the Bucks on Friday night. “We started out really slow. A lot of that’s on me,” Brunson said. “I’ve got to do a better job with just coming out and attacking, being who I am. I take full [blame] for that. I’ve got to come out with the intensity and tenacity like I usually do.” Brunson, hounded by…

Far-right incumbent Bolsonaro and left-wing ex-president Lula trade blows ahead of the presidential run-off vote on Sunday.Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his left-wing challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have faced off in their final televised debate ahead of Sunday’s tense run-off vote. Polls suggest Lula is the slight favourite to come back for a third term, capping a remarkable political renaissance after his jailing on corruption convictions that were overturned. But Bolsonaro outperformed opinion polls in the first-round vote this month, and many analysts say the election could go either way. During Friday’s free-wheeling debate, the deeply polarising…

Australians are being warned to tighten their household budgets in the lead-up to Christmas as the country faces rising inflation and interest rates. Economists predict inflation could rise to 8.5 per cent by December 25, which is higher than the Treasury’s forecast of 7.75 per cent. Source: Sky News